Newsweek's Raina Kelley on Media & Race: Relax

“Dear fellow journalists (especially the ones on TV): can I offer you a bit of unsolicited advice? Be brave. Listening to you talk (and talk and talk) around the subject of Barack Obama and race has been downright painful.

Yes, our new president is black, and most of you are white, and judging by the way you excruciatingly measure every word you say about him, it’s pretty clear that you are worried that you’ll inadvertently say something insensitive and you’ll wind up being accused of racism and it will ruin your career.